- The Minecraft 1.21 Tricky Trials update was officially released on June 13 and is related to combat and tinkering.
- New confirmed mobs include the Breeze and Bogged. There's also a new underground structure called the Trial Chamber.
- New confirmed features include the crafter, trial spawner, ominous trials, vault, ominous vault, mace, wind charge, copper bulb, and more.
Minecraft 1.21 is the new major update released for everyone’s beloved sandbox game. The update is now rolling out, bringing some new areas to explore along with fun combat challenges to all players. In this guide, we’ve shed light on the latest Minecraft 1.21 features like the trial chamber, the crafter, brand-new mobs like Bogged and Breeze, and new tuff and copper blocks. So, let’s check out all that the Tricky Trials update has in store for us.
Editor’s Note: Last updated on June 13, 2024, to streamline the content and improve the readability
Minecraft 1.21 Release Date (Confirmed)
As part of the game’s 15th anniversary celebrations, Mojang surprised its players with two major announcements. One is that a Minecraft animated series is coming exclusively to Netflix soon. The second is the official release date for the Minecraft 1.21 update, which is June 13. So, the ability to explore and combat the new mobs in the Trial Chambers arrived on this date.
Minecraft 1.21 Update Name
The last major update – Minecraft 1.20 – didn’t have an official name when it was first announced in October 2022. Minecraft 1.20 got its official name months later. This was possibly an outcome of the community discontent mentioned in the previous section.
For this reason, the Mojang team took its sweet time with naming the Minecraft 1.21 update, but it has officially revealed the name for the next major update. The Minecraft 1.21 update is called the Minecraft Tricky Trials.
Mojang revealed the official name in the April edition of the Minecraft Monthly video, which we’ve embedded below. The name Tricky Trials aptly describes the upcoming update, which focuses on the new challenges that players will face in the Trial Chambers, and well, they will be tricky for sure.
New Mobs in Minecraft 1.21
1. The Breeze
The Breeze is a new hostile mob in Minecraft, only found in the Trial Chamber structure (more on this below). It will have a distinctive attack called the wind charge. This attack will damage anything that it collides directly with.
When that happens, it will create a wind burst knocking back entities by several blocks. Breeze also drops breeze rods, items used in several crafting recipes.
2. The Bogged
Bogged is a green skeleton variant that shoots poison arrows at you, applying a poison status effect for 4 seconds. You will encounter the Bogged in swamps, mangrove swamps, and the newly added trial chambers.
The winner of the Minecraft Mob Vote 2023 was the armadillo, and while we expected this little mob to arrive with the 1.21 update, it was released in the Minecraft 1.20.5 update called Armored Paws.
Minecraft 1.21: Are There Any New Biomes?
With the release of Snapshot 24w13a during testing, Mojang announced that there will be no new feature additions to Minecraft 1.21. So, to answer your question, no, there are no new biomes or biome updates introduced in this update.
New Features Added in Minecraft 1.21
1. Crafter
The crafter block is the ultimate form of the crafting table. It’s a utility block that can allow you to automate crafting. By activating this block, the item you completed the crafting recipe for will get crafted and pushed out.
One more amazing feature of this block is that you can toggle slots, so you can program the crafter where to place the ingredients. We’ve created a dedicated guide about the crafter block in Minecraft 1.21, so check it out to learn everything related to this mind-blowing addition.
2. Trial Chambers
Trial Chambers are new, procedurally generated structures in Minecraft that focus on exploration and combat. You can easily find trial chambers in four different ways. Moreover, this structure has lots of different and unique rooms.
While exploring the tunnels in Trial Chambers, you will stumble upon parkour challenges, vaults, safe rooms with beds, underwater rooms, ominous vaults, and lots and lots of trial spawners. We have also compiled a list of trial chambers Minecraft seeds, so check those to start your adventure right away.
3. Ominous Bottle
The ominous bottle is an item that grants the Bad Omen effect of the level the bottle itself has. You may get it by killing pillager raid captains, as well as looting standard and ominous vaults. With the Bad Omen effect, you can walk into a village and it’ll turn into Raid Omen.
4. Trial Spawner & Ominous Spawner
The trial spawner is a special spawner type that will adapt to the number of players around. It spawns a limited number of mobs, which are divided into 4 categories – melee, small melee, ranged and the Breeze’s category.
Every trial chamber will spawn mobs from all four categories and only one mob per category. The blocks around a spawner indicate the mobs that will spawn from it. Once you defeat the mobs, the trial spawner goes into the cooldown state and drops some precious rewards.
When you have the Bad Omen effect, you can approach a trial spawner and it’ll automatically turn into an ominous trial spawner. This spawner will summon mobs with equipment and also random projectiles and potions above you and the mobs.
5. Trial Key & Ominous Trial Key
The trial key is an item you can get from several different sources — entrance chest, decorated pots in the corridor, and trial spawners after you’ve killed all the mobs that spawn from it. The trial key opens the vault block in the Trial Chambers.
The Ominous trial key is the ominous version of the trial key. Unlike its regular counterpart, it can only be obtained once you kill all the mobs summoned by the ominous trial spawner. There is a 30% chance you’ll get this scary-looking key from the ominous vault.
6. The Vault & Ominous Vault
The vault in Minecraft is a block you can open with the trial key. It will then spit out items onto itself that you can pick up. Every player that opens the vault will be rewarded, but only once.
You probably get the point by now, so the ominous vault is an ominous version of the vault. Unlike the ominous trial spawner, this block generates naturally in trial chambers. These blocks give you far better rewards than the normal vaults, including the heavy core item.
7. Breeze Rods
Breeze rods are items you get by killing the Breeze. These items are used in crafting recipes for the wind charge, the new mace weapon, and the flow armor trim. Moreover, you may combine it with the damaged mace in an anvil to restore 25% of the mace’s durability.
8. Heavy Core
Heavy core is an item that’s smaller than a full solid block. You can only obtain it from the ominous vault in trial chambers, where the chance of it being chosen is only 8.4%. This item can be combined with the breeze rod in a crafting grid to make the mace.
9. Mace
Mace is a new melee weapon you may craft with a breeze rod and heavy core. Its damage increases when you fall, so the longer you fall the more damage it will do. Not only that, but you can enchant it with the exclusive mace enchantments to further increase its damage.
If you manage to hit the target, you’ll negate all fall damage and also deal a ton of damage to the mob. Furthermore, mace will also create an AOE that will knock back nearby entities.
10. Wind Charge
Wind charge is an item and a projectile you can use by right-clicking or using the secondary action button. You can get 4 of them by breaking down breeze rods in a crafting grid.
It creates a small area of effect that will knock back entities and damage them if it hits them directly. Not only that, but it will also fling players in the air, making it a super cool addition to parkour mini-games. Check out some of the coolest uses of wind charge via our linked article.
11. Copper and Tuff Blocks
Many amazing tuff and copper building blocks have been added to the game with this update, and we have showcased all of them in the linked post, so check it out to learn more about them. You’ll find them throughout the Trial Chambers, but you may also craft them. We have also penned some dedicated copper block guides, so go through them while you’re here:
- How to make copper trapdoor in Minecraft 1.21
- How to make a copper door in Minecraft 1.21
- How to make copper grates in Minecraft 1.21
12. Copper Bulb
The copper bulb is a new light source block in Minecraft and the amount of light it emits depends on its oxidation stage. If this block is fully oxidized, it will emit the lowest light level.
On the other hand, if it’s at the initial stage and fully orange, Copper Bulb will glow the brightest in your world. You can wax the copper bulb using honeycomb to preserve its state. This new bulb has a special interaction with redstone that you can check out in the linked guide.
13. Other New Features
Minecraft 1.21 introduces two new armor trims (flow and bolt armor trims), two banner patterns (flow and guster banner patterns), and three new pottery sherds (scrape, guster, and flow pottery sherds). Four brand new potions have been added with the update, along with 20 new paintings in Minecraft.
There are 9 new background tracks created by three artists – Lena Raine, Aaron Cherof, and Kumi Tanioka. Not only that, there are three new music discs in the game now.
We previously mentioned leaks about the Minecraft Marketplace pass, which will be a subscription service available for players with the 1.21 update. However, the Marketplace pass has already gone official on March 12.
These are all the confirmed new features in the Minecraft 1.21 update. So, what is your favorite 1.21 feature? Let us know in the comments below!
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I hope they add the new dimension “ancient city” middle portal
Maybe that should add a space update so there are stars and some shine brighter and all are in different positions each night but will repeat here and there, also there could be a telescope to see the stars. And there could better telescopes by adding 1 glass to see farther.
didn’t they already add the spyglass that does exactly that?
I can’t wait!
Man all I want is a end update inventory update parity and quality of life update and then a sculk dimension update
Anche io
They should add in ameythest and copper armour and tools
more wolf stuff please!
more wolf stuff for sure i like that.
I want to download this app
They really need to add a new chest which can be locked with a pass code
Mojang should consider making the community by adding biomes in the end due to the fact that once you have reached a certain limit, the end dimension becomes most utterly useless because there would be no action or thing to look for. Enderite may or may not be a good idea because we go netherite and this would dissuade players from getting the netherite in the first place. It could have other functionality such as repairing tools / armour by a certain degree of durability or perhaps have elytra upgrades. This would be a huge update if Mojang decided to make this 1.21 but for now, we are stuck with 1.20 and mapacks – actually go check those out.
I think Mojang need to add new hostile mobs
Yeah!!! More hostile mobs, or just revamp all of the mobs and make their Ai completely different to change the game. Have like eclipses that could buff or spawn new mons
I want to download it
Gotta wait bro
everyone thinks the deep dark will have dimension but what if instead I didn’t take them to a deep dark dimension and I took them to THE PAST DIMENSION because of all of the old structures I think I would be pretty cool for 1.21
That’s was so cool 😀 I’m So happy With that but,What about the ambient and Water Physics,java lefthand,Glow items Glow in Dark when it’s in The Hand,change the Sound of Rain and the last is add the Bundles… In 1.17 Mojang said they will add the Bundles but it didn’t add in the game and until now
We should have emerald armor and tools. We need more enchants and more weapons as well as ENDERITE ORE which I would have waited for. Also add more trims
They should add a Chinese village in the cherry blossom biome and they should add the debug stick invisible item frame.
Not Chinese, Japanese Village is Cool
No Hate
I think mojang should add swamp villages and rainforest villages, the houses of these villages can be elevated like the roads of some places in Southeast Asia
I agree with you mr…./mrs xinyang?
Same I agree with mr, Xinyang you got a point though
They should add custom capes and skin crossover like if I have a custom skin on mobile it should show up on ps Xbox switch or laptop
I want working furniture in the game and rtx graphics
I think extra inventory space could make things too easy. An important part of survival mode is doing what you can to survive, especially while traveling, by smartly managing your inventory and planning ahead. The challenge is part of the fun.
Yeah I agree
I think it would be cool for them to add a space update so there are stars that shine brighter than the others and maybe add a telescope so you could see the stars.
something that I would love to see in 1.21 would be more mob variants. we know what it’s like to have the same mob look different with rabbits, horses, cats, parrots, etc. but what if it were that way with more mobs. like, differently colored cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc. though, when speaking about mob varieties, the most obviously wanted one would be wolves. wolves are essentially the players best friend- well, I should say the wolf is the players best friend, since there’s only one variants. I’m not saying to add dog breeds. honestly, I like that it’s wolves rather than dog breeds. it’s much easier to retexture a current model than have to make a whole new model and texture it. that’s why I want different wolf types. maybe even wolves that have the coloration of some dog breeds, but not the same body shape. I’d say to keep the original wolf model, but add different textures to the wolf dependant on the area it was born in (similar to frogs) or where they spawn (or just what wolves were bred)
speaking of wolves, I’d say also add stuff like wolf armor or chests to pit on your wolf. in single player, the wolf is usually your only companion (and loyal, at that) so why not add it some more functionality other than attack and give it some protection. we don’t want to lose your furry friend. I have more ideas, but I would be writing an entire essay.
Wolf armor is a great idea!!!
And they should add in more to the ocean like sharks and squid would be cool.
And more food like tacos!
Good idea neocodemus
Good idea neocodemus wolf armor sounds pretty cool and I would have a idea of how to get mojang would add wolf caves and maybe even some other dogs and sadly they said they WONT BE ADDING SHARKS
I have lost too many wolves to creepers (RIP Alphas 1-5, J-Dog, Wolfe, Dog!, Buddy 1-3, etc.). I think the idea of pet armor is incredible. I do not want to loose another IGESA (In Game Emotional Support Dog) To darn creepers.
I agree very much with you 😊 👍
Especially the armor and chest
I really want to see new updates
End Update:
If you are planning on adding Thalasium ores, maybe to actually get the ingots, you need to craft the ore you get with ghast tears and/or lots of amethyst and/or lots of quartz (quartz and amethyst both need more use tbh), to get the raw thallasium, THEN smelt it in a furnace! Because wouldn’t it be OP? Better than netherite? Also you wouldn’t find a lot of that ore out in the open! It would be kinda rare!
Also, I’ve heard something about radium getting added as an ore! Maybe it can only be mined in the end! Or the nether and the end! Or whichever 1 or 2 of the 3 dimensions, or all! Anyways, I heard it can be used as fuel, but making things cook/smelt faster, like 4x faster! And yeah, when you mine it, you get radium dust, green dust, which you craft into a radium block! If you place it down, it’s radioactive ☢️, so you take damage when near it! You can also make it explode with radioactive particles or rings (you take damage in and maybe can sample) if you surround a block with a dust from each side, or surround a dust with a block from each side!
Now, looking at Eyecraftmc’s “What if Minecraft 1.20 is The End Update?” video, there definitely should be end biomes. You’re probably saying: “Oh there’s technically 3 end biomes!” Yeah no they’re all the same. I mean real end biomes.
First, the Amber Lands. It would be a pretty flat terrain, doesn’t go up and down a lot, not many hills, orange grass on/combined with the end stone. And 2 types of shrubs. A tall thin one, probably each one being either 2 or 3 block tall, and just maybe dropping a weird item that idk what it would do. Maybe a kind of sprout? Idk. And then there’s be a square shaped one, that would only drop a certain part if mined or right-clicked with an axe, or a certain other part if sheared. And maybe those are just small chances if axed or sheared. But guaranteed nothing drops if mined with anything other than that. You could use the 2 parts to craft a unique weapon maybe! For example, a weird spear, that has only 30 durability, does only like 2 hearts, but has twice the range of a sword. So you could reach from like 8 blocks away! Also, have shrubs that when mined, get you amber mushrooms, then you craft them with warped fungus and crimson fungus to make an OP (or maybe just mid) stew.
Second, the Chorus Forest. Remake the textures of the current chorus fruit trees, or don’t, but have it so that those chorus fruit trees/stems are only found in this Chorus Forest biome. Y’know, to make that food a little harder to find in the end. And then don’t have trees, but special leaves on the ground, so when you bone meal them, an interesting type of food or tool or ingredient will grow on them. And then you can collect it either by mining it, or shearing it, your choice!
Third, the Aurora Hills. This biome could be a little bit, but still significantly rarer than the other biomes. It would have lots of hills, almost contsant hill change, but not too steep! Basically around a 45 degree angle. 📐. Anyways, it would have some sort of turf (just for looks) and have the Aurora crystals! And just like in the video, their color would depend on where they are exactly! Wouldn’t make a difference when mining the block, but would sure look beautiful! Anyways, you can get them with probably an iron pickaxe or better, and you’d craft them with another rare type of ore in the end (or a new material only capable of being found in chests in very specific structures. Ooh! Or maybe you actually make it with echo shards?), and get these powerful one-use stars ✨ 🌟 that would invert one hit of damage to heal as much as it was supposed to damage or something like that. Or, with two of those stars, you craft it into a sword that does at most a decent amount of damage, but take away 1 or 2 hunger bars each time you hit your enemy (for full charge hits only!)! Something creative like that! Maybe the star could be called Valtor or something. And yeah, like I said, either it itself gets used as a damage invert, and/or you craft 2 of em with a stick (or a diamond) to make a Valtor Sword! Maybe it’ll only have 100 durability, or maybe 1,000+! Anyways, yeah! Ik that would be OP, but it’s also rare since I said at the beginning of this paragraph that this aurora biome would be significantly rarer than the others! Maybe like others are 20% and this one’s 10-15%!
Fourth, the Painted Mountains! Honestly, not much to say about these ones but that they could appear in big chunks, where it’s half regular end stone, and half some weird black colored block that could be used as fuel, or a third stone, like cobblestone and blackstone! Or something else! You can be creative with it! For example, tiny fractions of an item you get by brushing it!
Fifth, the Icy Points! They are like massive snowflakes that you’d kinda have to parcour on, half the blocks would be fine, and the other half, when you’re stand on them, you freeze quickly! And can take freezing heart damage much faster than being in powdered snow! They’d be floating in the air, with you jumping from one giant snowflake to the next giant snowflake, and there’s just void beneath you.
Sixth, the Shadow Forest. A black, spooky, forest, with certain blocks on the ground giving you blindness when you walk on them. With a new hostile mob, that’s exactly the size and shape of you, but completely black, with particle effects around it. Walks very slowly, but if they hit you, they do 5 hearts, and give you blindness for 10 seconds. Probably would have around the same health as a zombie.
Anyways, 3 things for whatever you do when you update the end:
1. Don’t put more trees with more wood in. Believe me, we don’t need more wood, especially with Mangrove in 1.19, and the Cherry and Bamboo wood in 1.20!
2. When you spawn in the end, it would be cool if you changed it so that, you’d be in the middle of the end, and you have to travel like 500 blocks to get to the Ender dragon fight. Ik your thinking: “Well, they won’t know which way!” But they’ll check their coords and they’ll know it’s always at X=0 and Z=0! And yeah, you could make it so that they’re not y’know 10,000 blocks away, but maybe 500 or 1,000 blocks, it would be a cool build up, and then, you see the central place with the Ender Dragon fight. Maybe you still have to bridge to it, maybe there’s still a huge void gap between the outer end biomes and the boss fight, or maybe there’s not!
3. We’re gonna want that starry sky, that’s so cool and space like, and kinda changes color as well as its look for some of the biomes, kind of like how in the Nether when you go in the Soul Sand Biome, the sky turns blue, and gets kinda foggy. Or how there’s smoke in the air when in the Basalt biome in the Nether.
Oh yeah! The one structure where it looks like writing of ancient languages. There are 8 pedestals in a circle around an empty portal like set of Roman temple blocks. Maybe there are different variants of them, they look the same, but the item you have to put in the pedestals changes. For example, in one of them, you have to make eight full durability iron pickaxes and place them on the pedestals, one on each, then the portal will activate and the 8 iron pickaxes will get consumed. Here are my ideas for different variants. 8 Iron pickaxes, 8 honeycomb, 8 crying obsidian, 8 amethyst shards, or 8 or those weird spears I was talking about earlier. And also, the portal and pedestals are either unbreakable, like bedrock, or very tough to mine, and you won’t get it even with Silk Touch, like reinforced deepslate.
Anyways, yeah, the portal, will take you to this cool snow dimension! Maybe you need it after killing the Ender dragon! Perhaps you go in the snow dimension, and use the Ender dragon egg to put on a pedestal and then the portal for back to the Overworld aka to beat the game would fill. But you’d have the one last challenge to find that one pedestal in the snow dimension.
Also, I saw in that mod, some weird cactuses that grow sideways or any way really. And they’re very long, that would be a cool thing to add.
You see how much more important so many items would be in Minecraft if you add stuff like this? Your inventory would be crowded and packed to the brim! And then imagine if you could upgrade your inventory! This would be an update to a whole nother level!
Congrats, you made it to the end of my list! These are just my suggestions, but yeah, I really want an end update SO BAD, also inventory update would be pretty nice as well!
Schizophrenia
Most of those ideas are great, personally I think the end needs biomes and mobs. Also, copper needs more uses than just being decorative. I think the tundra needs more mobs, like the penguin that’s in this mob vote, I know that it’s useless, but I think it would add some life to the tundra. Sue me. More biomes in the over world would be nice, like a white spruce forest, and maybe some more birds in the game. Also the forgotten moobloom, maybe with its own biome. I would also like a new structure for the cherry blossom biom, maybe a Japanese temple or town. I think the deep dark portal could lead to the past, when the ancient city was first built and thriving with life.
why so much?
I want to download it
I want to download it